Medya News Podcast

-German lawyer urges people to join Berlin demo against the criminalization of the PKK -In this podcast, Dr Lukas Theune spoke about the issues surrounding Germany’s criminalization of the Kurds as they face an existential struggle for survival in the Middle East against a full-scale political and military onslaught from the Turkish state.

-Dr. Gisela Penteker: ‘Turkey’s alleged use of chemical weapons must be investigated’ -In a timely interview for Medya News, Dr Gisela Penteker of the Nobel peace prize winning organisation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War tells Mark Campbell that there are signs that Turkey is using chemical weapons against the Kurds in northern Iraq and that the Organisation for the Pr...

-Top British human rights lawyer Alastair Lyon says UK government has ‘politicised’ the law in favour of Turkey -In today’s Podcast I will be exploring the issues surrounding the UK’s criminalization of the Kurds as they face an existential struggle for survival in the Middle East against a full-scale political and military onslaught from the Turkish state.

-The Criminalization of the Kurdish diaspora and the PKK in Germany and the repression of peace initiatives -In criticizing Germany's criminalization of the PKK, the Kurdish diaspora and peace initiatives, Martin Dolzer asks, 'Why can’t Abdullah Öcalan be respected as a leader of a Kurdish population as Mandela was in South Africa?'

-Enforced disappearances and ‘genocide’ of the Baloch in East Balochistan and Pakistan? -In this Medya News podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Shazhavar Karimzadi discuss and detail the nature of ‘enforced disappearances’ and wider human rights violations (inclusive of ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’) in East Balochistan and Pakistan.

-Saleh Muslim speaks to Medya News about Kurdish Avesta graveyard desecration in Afrin -Saleh Muslim, member of the Co-Presidency Council of the Democratic Union Party, speaks from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria to Medya News about the 'Avesta graveyard' incident in Afrin.

-After Afghanistan – what will be the consequences of a US withdrawal from Iraq? And what about Syria? -The Kurdish Question is forever evolving and shifting, involving the different regional countries including Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria who have all historically and brutally suppressed their own Kurdish populations. Also, other regional and international political stakeholders also vie for fut...

-The first Kurdish woman to enter the Norwegian Parliament talks to Medya News -In this special edition of Medya New Podcasts, I was very happy to be joined by Seher Aydar from Oslo. Seher was elected yesterday to the Norwegian Parliament for the Red Party (or Rødt) and is the first woman of Kurdish origin to enter the Norwegian legislative parliament.

-Nadine Maenza says recognizing AANES is the best way to protect religious freedoms in Middle East -On the 7th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide, Medya News speaks to the Chair of USCIRF about her work in North East Syria and US policy towards the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria.

-Margaret Owen: The UK government’s promotion of arms sales to Turkey makes it ‘complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity’ -At a time when Turkey is “conducting a genocide against the Kurds,” UK barrister Margaret Owen says the UK government’s silence is "shameful: we should be leading the world in stopping all arms manufacture and arms trade to countries like this.”

-Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen discuss Carlotta Gall’s controversial New York Times article on Afrin -Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen discuss Carlotta Gall’s controversial New York Times article on Afrin. In this podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen critically analyze the recent and controversial New York Times front page article by Carlotta Gall that focused on the human rights...

-Turkey’s chemical weapons attacks ‘an issue for the whole world, not just Kurds,’ says Nikolaj Villumsen -In response to numerous reports alleging use of chemical weapons by Turkey's armed forces during military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Danish MEP has supported the call for an independent investigation by the OPCW.

-Saleh Muslim on Catalonia’s recognition of AANES: ‘The Kurds have friends other than the mountains’ -PYD's Muslim shares his happiness over the first-ever political recognition of AANES, saying that Catalans showed that it is not "only the mountains" the Kurds have as friends. Kurdish journalist Amina also shared her enthusiasm over the historic decision: "This is a victory!"

-The UK APPG on Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey’s report on ‘Kurdish Political Representation and Equality in Turkey’ -Lloyd Russell-Moyle, MP, Chair of the UK APPG on Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey says that “there is a particular problem” concerning “how Turkey is treating political representation, is treating cultural representation and then particularly, women and journalists of a Kurdish backgro...

-Exclusive Medya News Interview with PKK’s Top Commander Murat Karayılan – Part 1 -In response to questions we sent, Karayılan spoke for the first time to Medya News. He shared information about the ongoing deadly battle they have been engaged in with Turkish armed forces for six months and also expressed his political views in a wider context.

-Taliban control of Afghanistan: Geopolitical implications and consequences for the Baloch and women -Dr. Mohammed Hosseinbor says the Taliban’s take-over of Afghanistan will have significant repercussions on women and Baloch in the country and may also result in a potential clash with the clerical authorities in Iran.

-The criminalisation of the PKK can be successfully challenged says Belgium lawyer -Today’s Medya News podcast assesses the significance of the landmark Belgium court case that concluded, at the beginning of last year – after a long and protracted fight in the Belgium courts -that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could not be prosecuted as a ‘terrorist’ organisation because it was a party to an...

-Student activist from Iraqi Kurdistan, ‘The police use stun guns on male students genitals and fire tear gas at us.’ -Protests by university students that began on 21 November in Iraqi Kurdistan have spread to many cities. Tens of thousands of students from different universities have taken to the streets to attend peaceful demonstrations all over the region.

-Exclusive Medya News Interview with PKK’s Top Commander Murat Karayılan – Part 1 -In response to questions we sent, Karayılan spoke for the first time to Medya News. He shared information about the ongoing deadly battle they have been engaged in with Turkish armed forces for six months and also expressed his political views in a wider context.

-Mark Campbell Interviews Frederike Geerdink about her new book -Mark Campbell interviews Frederike Geerdink about her new book This Fire Never Dies, a personal account of her one year spent with Kurdish gerilla fighters in Kurdistan.

THE IMPLICATIONSOF THE PASSING OF THE 'WAR MOTION' IN TURKEY

-Iranian state targeting of Baloch and Kurdish political prisoners and border traders -In this podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Faiz Baluch critically analyse the Iranian state’s target killings of Baloch ‘sookhtbar’ and Kurdish ‘kolbar’ (also referred to as ‘kolber’ or ‘kolbaran’) border traders and the execution of Baloch and Kurdish political prisoners.

-The Condıtıons ın Iraqı Kurdistan Driving Refugees/Migrants/Asylum Seekers To The Belarus-Poland Border -Life in Iraqi Kurdistan ‘is a gamble’ where ‘authoritarianism’ reigns, assert Kamal Chomani and Dastan Jasim -As our TV screens and news bulletins have been filled in the past weeks with harrowing images of desperate asylum seekers, migrants and refugees trapped in sub-zero conditions along th...

Monsieur Antoine Comte, the French lawyer leading the fight for justice for the victims of the Paris killings, speaks to Medya News on the ninth anniversary of the brutal killings in Paris, 9 January 2013.

-London Kurdish Film Festival coming soon and going global for first time, say organizers -The 12th London Kurdish Film Festival (LKFF) will be presenting the first-ever Global Kurdish Film Festival – Online Edition, taking place from 16 – 27 April 2021. This year’s programme of films will be showcased online, with worldwide accessibility, completely free of charge.